Sleeve Privacy Policy

Overview

Sleeve is a player, not a data business. It reads music files you already own, from sources you connect. There is no account system. Your play counts, recently played, ratings, playlists, and library index stay on your device. Sleeve contains no third-party advertising or tracking SDKs — not as a setting you can switch off, but as a property of the product. Every claim on this page is verifiable: you can see it in Settings, and you can see it on the wire.

1. Data We Handle

Data	Where it lives	Purpose
Your audio files	Stay at their source; read in place	Playback. Sleeve never copies, moves, or uploads them
Library index (titles, artists, albums, paths)	On your device only	Browse, search, and organize your library
Play counts, recently played, playback position	On your device only	Resume where you left off; sort by what you actually listen to
Source credentials (where a source needs them)	iOS Keychain, on device	Reconnect to the source you added
Song title / artist / duration	Sent to a lyrics or metadata provider only when you ask	Find lyrics or artwork for a track
Feedback (message, optional email)	Sent to us when you submit feedback	Reply and improve the app
Crash reports	Off by default; opt-in only	Stability
Purchase status	Apple / on-device	Unlock Pro

Sleeve does not collect your name, contacts, browsing history, or advertising identifier, and does not build a profile of your listening.

2. Your Files Never Leave Your Control

Sleeve reads audio in place. Connecting a source grants Sleeve read access to a folder you choose; audio moves only between that source and your device, for the purpose of playing it. Sleeve does not upload your files, does not mirror your library to a server, and does not scan your library for any purpose other than building the index shown to you in the app.

3. No Advertising or Tracking SDKs

Sleeve embeds no third-party advertising, attribution, or social tracking SDKs. This is a design premise rather than a preference: the code contains no analytics collector, so there is no product-usage telemetry to disable. We accept that this leaves us without usage metrics.

4. What Requires the Network

Three things, all optional and each independently switchable in Settings:

Lyrics matching — sends the track's title, artist, and duration to a lyrics provider. No identifier of you or your device is attached.
Artwork and track information — same shape as above, and can be turned off completely.
Crash reports — off by default. When enabled, a report contains a stack trace and device model. It never contains your library contents, file names, or file paths.

With all three off, Sleeve remains fully usable; it simply stops filling in lyrics and artwork for you.

5. No Account

Sleeve has no sign-up, no login, and no user table. Pro is a one-time purchase validated against your Apple ID by Apple; we never see your Apple ID.

6. Third-Party Services

Purchases are handled by Apple In-App Purchase. Lyrics and metadata lookups, when you enable them, are served by third-party community databases. We do not share anything with them beyond the track fields listed in Section 4.

7. Data Retention & Deletion

Library index, play counts, and playlists: stored locally; removed when you delete the source, clear the library in Settings, or uninstall the app.
Your audio files: never ours to retain — they stay at their source and are untouched by uninstalling Sleeve.
Feedback: retained only as long as needed to handle your request.

8. Your Rights

Sleeve is local-first and account-free, so you stay in control. Removing a source removes its tracks from the index immediately. Uninstalling the app removes everything Sleeve stored, and leaves your music exactly where it was. Revoke a source's file access at any time in iOS Settings.